barbecue tongs

Hot meat lifters

Barbecue tongs are long-handled gripping tools used to turn and move food on a grill.

The extended handles keep hands away from heat and flames.

They typically have spring-loaded arms and scalloped or ridged tips for gripping meat: He flipped the steaks with the barbecue tongs.

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Opposites
gripping mechanism vs. sliding mechanism

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Flat-bladed kitchen tool

fish spatula · burger flipper · turner

manual handling vs. piercing

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Long-handled meat turner

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G